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[Catalystik]

A lot of these secondaries ask about my gap year plans, which I've covered pretty thoroughly in the work&activities and personal statement parts of my primary app. Would I be penalized for repeating my activities almost verbatim for the secondary prompts?

For background info, this is my second year working at a research lab after graduating from college. I already talked about my research contributions, hobbies, and volunteer activities that I'm currently involved in, and I don't think I have anything more to add since I submitted the primary app a couple of weeks ago...

Try to change it up a bit, with different vocabulary words, at a minimum. While all screeners and adcomms don't have necessarily access to all parts of the application, sometimes they do, and you don't want anyone getting bored and starting to skim.

 

[Catalystik]

Will do! So you would recommend that I write it in a way that one would not have to refer back to my primary to understand what I'm talking about, correct?

Yes. Create an independent essay.

 

[redferrari]

Better to be redundant than inconsistent, so err on the side of redundancy while being sure to be somewhat original in secondaries.